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Title: The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and...
Post by: LostInTime on July 09, 2007, 08:12:13 AM
Post by: LostInTime on July 09, 2007, 08:12:13 AM
The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution by Pagan Kennedy
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When Christine Jorgensen stepped off a plane at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport in 1953, looking for all the world like Lana Turner's long-lost cousin, she was repeatedly declared to be the world's first transsexual. But history's declared "firsts," well, sometimes they turn out to be its seconds, even its thirds. And so, while sad, it seems necessary to break the news to Ms. Jorgensen and her fans: when it comes to being first to change one's gender with the assistance of medical science, that title may very well belong to Michael Dillon, who, in the 1940s, shed his birth identity, Laura, to become the man he always dreamed of being.
Bookslut (http://www.bookslut.com/nonfiction/2007_07_011350.php)
When Christine Jorgensen stepped off a plane at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport in 1953, looking for all the world like Lana Turner's long-lost cousin, she was repeatedly declared to be the world's first transsexual. But history's declared "firsts," well, sometimes they turn out to be its seconds, even its thirds. And so, while sad, it seems necessary to break the news to Ms. Jorgensen and her fans: when it comes to being first to change one's gender with the assistance of medical science, that title may very well belong to Michael Dillon, who, in the 1940s, shed his birth identity, Laura, to become the man he always dreamed of being.